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Wellington North (New Zealand Electorate)
Wellington North was, from 1905 to 1946, a parliamentary electorate within the area encompassing New Zealand's capital, Wellington. The electorate was represented by four Members of Parliament. Population centres Through the City Single Electorates Act, 1903, the three-member electorates of the four main centres were split again, and this became effective at the end of the 15th Parliament and was thus used for the . The City of Wellington electorate was split into the , , and Wellington North electorates. The electorate covered areas north of the central city. For the purpose of the country quota, the electorate has always been regarded as fully urban. In the 1937 electoral redistribution, Somes Island was transferred from the to the Wellington North electorate. History Charles Hayward Izard of the Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Electorates
An electorate or electoral district ( mi, rohe pōti) is a geographical constituency used for electing a member () to the New Zealand Parliament. The size of electorates is determined such that all electorates have approximately the same population. Before 1996, all MPs were directly chosen for office by the voters of an electorate. In New Zealand's electoral system, 72 of the usually 120 seats in Parliament are filled by electorate members, with the remainder being filled from party lists in order to achieve proportional representation among parties. The 72 electorates are made up from 65 general and seven Māori electorates. The number of electorates increases periodically in line with national population growth; the number was increased from 71 to 72 starting at the 2020 general election. Terminology The Electoral Act 1993 refers to electorates as "electoral districts". Electorates are informally referred to as "seats", but technically the term '' seat'' refers to an electe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Herring
Horace Edgar Herring (1884–9 January 1962) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Mid-Canterbury. Born in England and a mechanical engineer and draughtsman, he came to New Zealand in 1909. Member of Parliament Horace Herring represented the Mid-Canterbury electorate for the Labour Party between 1935 and 1938. He was a supporter of John A. Lee and stood as a Democratic Labour Party candidate at the 1943 Christchurch East by-election, which was won by Mabel Howard. Horace Herring received a very creditable 2,578 votes; 26.7% of the total cast. Labour MP Ormond Wilson, described Herring as "a character only Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian er ... could have invented". (See also a description of his Maiden Speech in Parliament.) Herring was awarded the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of New Zealand
The National Library of New Zealand ( mi, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa) is New Zealand's legal deposit library charged with the obligation to "enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchanges with other nations" (''National Library of New Zealand (Te Puna Mātauranga) Act 2003''). Under the Act, the library's duties include collection, preserving and protecting the collections of the National Library, significant history documents, and collaborating with other libraries in New Zealand and abroad. The library supports schools through its Services to Schools business unit, which has curriculum and advisory branches around New Zealand. The Legal Deposit Office is New Zealand's agency for ISBN and ISSN. The library headquarters is close to the Parliament of New Zealand and the Court of Appeal on the corner of Aitken and Molesworth Streets, Wellington. History Origins The National Library of New Zealand was formed in 1965 when the General Assembly Library ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 New Zealand General Election
The 1919 New Zealand general election was held on Tuesday, 16 December in the Māori electorates and on Wednesday, 17 December in the general electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 20th session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 560,673 (80.5%) voters turned out to vote. In 1919 women won the right to be elected to the House of Representatives. The law was changed late that year, and with only three weeks' notice, three women stood for Parliament. They were Ellen Melville in Grey Lynn, Rosetta Baume in Parnell, and Aileen Cooke in Thames. Ellen Melville stood for the Reform Party and came second. She stood for Parliament several more times and generally polled well but never won a seat. Results Though Labour Party captured only eight seats it received nearly a quarter of the votes – a shock to conservative minds due to Labour being founded only three years earlier in 1916. Party totals Votes summary Electorate results The table below shows ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 New Zealand General Election
The 1922 New Zealand general election was held on Monday, 6 December in the Māori electorates, and on Tuesday, 7 December in the general electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 21st session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 700,111 (87.7%) voters turned out to vote. In one seat (Bay of Plenty) there was only one candidate. 1922 was the year residents of the Chatham Islands were enfranchised for the first time (included in Lyttelton and Western Māori electorates). Result William Massey formed a government, but with the loss in support for the Reform Party he had to negotiate for support with Independents, and with two Liberal Party members. Liberal was in decline and disorganised. Just before the 1925 election (held on 4 November), two Liberal MPs from Christchurch who had supported Massey (along with Independents Harry Atmore and Allen Bell) were appointed to the Legislative Council. They were Leonard Isitt and George Witty who were both appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis McGrath (lawyer)
''For the Canadian–American screenwriter and producer, see Denis McGrath.'' John Denis McGrath (17 June 1910 – 14 June 1986) was a New Zealand local politician and lawyer. He was a Wellington city councillor, serving as deputy mayor between 1962 and 1965. He also served as president of the New Zealand Law Society from 1968 to 1971. Biography Early life and career Denis McGrath was born in Wellington on 17 June 1910, the eldest of three sons of lawyer John Joseph (Jack) McGrath and Caroline Margaret McGrath (née Wilkinson). He suffered bouts of ill-health as a child, and was educated at St Patrick's College before attending Victoria University College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1932. He then joined his father in a joint legal practice in 1933 under the firm name JJ & Denis McGrath. In 1944, he married Margaret Fraser and together had four children (including John McGrath). Following his father's death in 1946, McGrath carried on the firm alone for fiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Combs (politician)
Harry Ernest Combs (14 January 1881 – 12 June 1954) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. Biography Early life and career Combs was born in Napier in 1881. He received a state school education in Gisborne. He began work as a runner for '' The Poverty Bay Herald''. He then became a messenger at the post office and became involved with the Post and Telegraph Employees' Association. In 1908 he married Ethel Bessie Webster. He was the Post and Telegraph Employees' Association's president between 1909 and 1911 and then general secretary from 1916 to 1926. Additionally he was the editor of the association's journal ''Katipo'' for twenty years between 1906 and 1926. He played a leading part in the demands for a reclassification of the service in 1918 and in 1920 he led a deputation to Prime Minister William Massey on the question of cost-of-living pay increases. He was also Secretary of the New Zealand Rugby Union from 1919 to 1926 before establishing his own printing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1925 New Zealand General Election
The 1925 New Zealand general election was held 4 November (the Māori vote had taken place the previous day) to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 22nd session of the New Zealand Parliament. A total number of 678,877 (90.02%) voters turned out to vote. In one seat (Bay of Plenty) there was only one candidate. In 1922, registration as an elector was made compulsory for all those eligible (except Māori). Results Gordon Coates continued as Prime Minister, with his Reform Party winning an outright majority of 30. Leonard Isitt and George Witty were both appointed to the Legislative Council by Gordon Coates on 28 October 1925; shortly before the election on 4 November. Both were Liberals but their retirement removed "a source of some bitterness from the Party's ranks". Gordon Coates was Reform, and both of their former seats went to Reform candidates. After the election both Labour and Liberals held 11 seats. A tie at 4,900 votes each in (between the Labour and Reform candidates) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 New Zealand General Election
The 1928 New Zealand general election was held on 13 and 14 November in the Māori and European electorates, respectively, to elect 80 MPs to the 23rd session of the New Zealand Parliament. 1928 was the year postal voting was introduced for certain specified groups (e.g. invalids) who could not get to a polling booth on election day. The election The 1928 election was held on Tuesday, 13 November in the Māori electorates, and on Wednesday, 14 November in the general electorates to elect a total of 80 MPs to the 23rd session of Parliament. A total of 844,633 electors were registered on the European roll, of which 743,691 (88.05%) turned out to vote. All 80 electorates were contested. 47 and 29 electorates were in the North Island and South Island, respectively, plus the 4 Māori electorates. In 1927, a faction of the decaying Liberal Party formed a new organisation, which was eventually named the United Party. In 1928, to the considerable surprise of most observers and many m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Troup (architect)
Sir George Alexander Troup (21 October 1863 – 4 October 1941) was a New Zealand architect, engineer and statesman. He was nicknamed "Gingerbread George" after his most famous design, the Dunedin Railway Station in the Flemish Renaissance style (he preferred his alternative design in the Scottish Baronial style). He was the first official architect of the New Zealand Railways. He designed many other stations, including Lower Hutt and Petone. Early life and education He was born in London, England. His family returned to Edinburgh, Scotland soon after he was born. His widowed mother sent him to Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, where he was entitled to free board and tuition as the son of an Aberdeen burgess. He trained as an architect and engineer under C.E. Calvert in Edinburgh, and in 1882 was employed as a draughtsman by architect J.J.A. Chesser. Career He emigrated to New Zealand in 1884. Joining the Survey Department when he arrived in Dunedin, he worked in remote sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 New Zealand General Election
The 1931 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 24th New Zealand Parliament, 24th term. It resulted in the United–Reform Coalition, newly formed coalition between the United Party (New Zealand), United Party and the Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform Party remaining in office as the United–Reform coalition Government of New Zealand, United–Reform Coalition Government, although the opposition New Zealand Labour Party, Labour Party made some minor gains despite tallying more votes than any other single party. Background In the 1928 New Zealand general election, 1928 election, the Reform Party (New Zealand), Reform Party won 28 seats to the United Party (New Zealand), United Party's 27 seats. Shortly after the election the Reform Party lost a vote of no-confidence and the United Party managed to form a government, the United Government of New Zealand, United Government, with the support of the New Zealand Labour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 New Zealand General Election
The 1935 New Zealand general election was a nationwide vote to determine the shape of the New Zealand Parliament's 25th term. It resulted in the Labour Party's first electoral victory, with Michael Joseph Savage becoming the first Labour Prime Minister after defeating the governing coalition, consisting of the United Party and the Reform Party, in a landslide. The governing coalition lost 31 seats, which was attributed by many to their handling of the Great Depression: the year after the election, the United and Reform parties merged to form the modern National Party. The election was originally scheduled to be held in 1934, in keeping with the country's three-year election cycle, but the governing coalition postponed the election by one year hoping that the economic conditions would improve by 1935. Background Since 1931, New Zealand had been governed by a coalition of the United Party and the Reform Party, the United–Reform Coalition. United and Reform had tradition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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